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If you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou, then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you, do something else.Charles Bukowski
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Unless it comes out ofyour soul like a rocket, unless being still woulddrive you to madness orsuicide or murder, don’t do it.unless the sun inside you isburning your gut, don’t do it.when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it byitself and it will keep on doing ituntil you die or it dies in you.there is no other way.and there never was.Charles Bukowski
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If it doesn’t come bursting out of youin spite of everything, don’t do it.unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouthand your gut, don’t do it.Charles Bukowski
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Don’t be like so many writers, don’t be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers, don’t be dull and boring andpretentious, don’t be consumed with self-love.the libraries of the world haveyawned themselves tosleepover your kind.don’t add to that.don’t do it.Charles Bukowski
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You think of killing himon the spotbut discard that thought andleave, down into the urine-stinkingelevator, they have you crucified too, America at work, where they rip out your intestinesand your brain and your will and your spirit. They suck you dry, then throw you away. The capitalist system. The work ethic. The profit motive. The memory of your father’s words, “work hard and you’ll be appreciated.” of course, only if you make much more for them than they payyou.Charles Bukowski
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No concept of danger, reality, flow or compassion. you can feel the despair escaping from their machines, their lives as hopeless and as numbed as yours.Charles Bukowski
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From the beginning, through themiddle years and up to theend:too bad, too bad, too bad.Charles Bukowski